If you want to create a Culture of Safety you have to change the varying opinions of the workers. Culture is nothing more than a collection of attitudes within an organization. If you want to really develop a Culture of Safety, then you have got to change the attitudes that are driving your organization right now. Shocking and scaring your people into a safety mindset never lasts or ever takes off for that matter.
No safety program has had success because your employees were once shown a picture of a guy losing his arm in a machine. No safety program has ever had success because your employees watched a video of someone in the midst of a reportable incident. No safety program ever succeeded because you hired an accident-victim-turned-motivational-speaker to teach your people, "don't do what I did."
No, if you want to instill a Culture of Safety, you need to get the majority of your people on-side and create a self-policing, peer-based safety culture that looks out for each other, makes sure that everyone is working safely and chastises and ridicules those who chose to operate outside of the safety program. You need to find a way to get your people to make those who don't follow the safety culture to feel like outsiders and to be ostracized.
"We operate with a safety mindset around here," your people need to say. "If you don't want to play the way we play, then we don't want you around here. We're going to get you fired. Either get in line or get a new job."
That's the Culture of Safety you want. If that's not the culture you have right now, then your safety program isn't working.
Zero is real on every job site. There are no excuses - unless your culture accepts excuses.
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Kevin Burns - Corporate Safety Attitude/Culture Strategist
www.safety.kevburns.com
Toll Free 1-877-287-6711
Creator of the 90-Day System To Improve Safety Culture!
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